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Aims and scope

The aim of EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing is to bring together researchers, scientists and engineers working on the theory and applications of the processing of various audio signals, with a specific focus on speech and music. EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing will be an interdisciplinary journal for the dissemination of all basic and applied aspects of speech communication and audio processes. Its primary objectives are:

To publish articles on the advancement of both human speech communication science and automatic speech and audio systems

To allow rapid and wide diffusion of excellent contributions in these areas

To provide world-wide, barrier-free access to the full text of research articles

To conduct a rapid but thorough review process in order to assure high quality articles

To provide immediate web access once an article is editorially approved

The journal will be dedicated to having original research work, but will also allow tutorial and review articles. Articles will deal with both theoretical and practical aspects of audio, speech, and music processing.

The journal is an Open Access journal since 2006.

Additional information

Subject areas include (but are not limited to):

Speech and audio technology, as well as related science and engineering methods

Why publish your article in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing?

High visibility

EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing's open access policy allows maximum visibility of articles published in the journal as they are available to a wide, global audience.

Speed of publication

EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing offers a fast publication schedule whilst maintaining rigorous peer review; all articles must be submitted online, and peer review is managed fully electronically (articles are distributed in PDF form, which is automatically generated from the submitted files). Articles will be published with their final citation after acceptance, in both fully browsable web form, and as a formatted PDF; the article will then be available through EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing and SpringerOpen.

Flexibility

Online publication in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing gives you the opportunity to publish large datasets, large numbers of color illustrations and moving pictures, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages so as to allow readers to manipulate the data for themselves, and to create all relevant links (for example, to PubMed, to sequence and other databases, and to other articles).

Promotion and press coverage

Articles published in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing are included in article alerts and regular email updates. In addition, articles published in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing may be promoted by press releases to the general or scientific press. These activities increase the exposure and number of accesses for articles published in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing.

Copyright

Authors of articles published in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing retain the copyright of their articles and are free to reproduce and disseminate their work (for further details, see the copyright and license agreement).

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Open access

All articles published by EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. Further information about open access can be found here.

As authors of articles published in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing you are the copyright holders of your article and have granted to any third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce or disseminate your article, according to the SpringerOpen copyright and license agreement.

For those of you who are US government employees or are prevented from being copyright holders for similar reasons, SpringerOpen can accommodate non-standard copyright lines. Please contact us if further information is needed.

Article-processing charges

Open access publishing is not without costs. EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing therefore levies an article-processing charge of £865.00/$1350.00/€1100.00 for each article accepted for publication.

If the corresponding author's institution participates in our open access membership program, some or all of the publication cost may be covered (more details available on the membership page). We routinely waive charges for authors from low-income countries. For other countries, article-processing charge waivers or discounts are granted on a case-by-case basis to authors with insufficient funds. Authors can request a waiver or discount during the submission process. For further details, see our article-processing charge page.

SpringerOpen provides a free open access funding support service to help authors discover and apply for article processing charge funding. Visit our OA funding and policy support page to view our list of research funders and institutions that provide funding for APCs, and to learn more about our email support service.

Indexing services

All articles published in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing are included in:

ACM

Computing and Technology

Current contents

DBLP

DOAJ

EI-Compendex

OCLC

Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition

Science Citation Index Expanded

SCImago

Scopus

Summon by Serial Solutions

The full text of all articles is deposited in digital archives around the world to guarantee long-term digital preservation. You can also access all articles published by SpringerOpen Central on SpringerLink.

Peer-review policy

Peer-review is the system used to assess the quality of a manuscript before it is published. Independent researchers in the relevant research area assess submitted manuscripts for originality, validity and significance to help editors determine whether the manuscript should be published in their journal. You can read more about the peer-review process here.

EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing operates a single-blind peer-review system, where the reviewers are aware of the names and affiliations of the authors, but the reviewer reports provided to authors are anonymous Publication of research articles by EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing is dependent primarily on their scientific validity and coherence as judged by our external expert editors and/or peer reviewers, who will also assess whether the writing is comprehensible and whether the work represents a useful contribution to the field.

Submitted manuscripts will generally be reviewed by two to three experts who will be asked to evaluate whether the manuscript is scientifically sound and coherent, whether it duplicates already published work, and whether or not the manuscript is sufficiently clear for publication. Reviewers will also be asked to indicate how interesting and significant the research is. The Editors will reach a decision based on these reports and, where necessary, they will consult with members of the Editorial Board.

Editorial policies

All manuscripts submitted to EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing should adhere to SpringerOpen's editorial policies.

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Citing articles in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing

Articles in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. Because articles are not printed, they do not have page numbers; instead, they are given a unique article number.